More Chicago Near North observations...and CTA observations...
LAz: I found an interesting link on the Cabrini-Green Housing Project:
www.rapdict.org/Cabrini-Green
This explains much about the complex and explains somewhat about it's bad reputation in Chicago...especially to outsiders...
I remember myself interesting gaps between stations on CTA lines and closed stations...I remember at least one on the Congress
Line (today's Blue Line Forest Park Branch) and not only do I remember that station gap on the Ravenswood Line I recall a gap
between stations on the Lake Street L route (today's Green Line) between Ashland and California that went thru one of the roughest-looking neighborhoods on Chicago's West Side...
The Englewood and Jackson Park Lines (again Green Lines) also served directly the heart of Chicago's South Side ghetto...
The heart of the SS ghetto in the 70s era was the vicinity of 43rd/Indiana...
Also remember that the entire Lake/Englewood/Jackson Park (Green Line) could have been closed entirely in the 90s...
Instead neighborhood activists among others sought to save them from closure and demolition and they were re-constructed
extensively and closed for a long stretch of around 18 months...What is now the Green Lines contain very old L structures that had fallen into a state of disrepair...
I have never gotten used to or like the CTA color names remembering the distinct line names previously used...
I learned the system in the 70s era and I recall that the first maps that used colors to designate the CTA Rapid Transit
lines were issued around 1978...I use the color names reluctantly knowing that some have only known those since they were
introduced back in the mid 90s era...I have seen the term "dumbing down" used concerning and criticizing this change...
Memories and observations from LI MIKE